He says your poems whisper too loudly of ugly truths. He forgets he authors the endings.
CHARLIE GILBERTI am not here to fight with you I’m here to sit with you in love- Lets take the gloves off.
More Charlie Gilbert Quotes
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He told me ‘I must be a story’ but for me-he always was.
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He made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
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If I could tell him anything it would be that he was his strongest bravest & most powerful in his most vulnerable of moments -the healed will not hurt you.
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If you didn’t want her to scream so loud you shouldn’t have tried to strangle her voice -both love & violence are a choice.
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The fog is lifting I am healing- You don’t own my heart.
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I wept that everything he made was pretty I forgot that I, too, was art-the girl with the soft heart.
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If you think you are the only one allowed to act in anger then no-one will ever be enough-my pain matters.
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To be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
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You blame your father but it was your mother who did not keep you safe -why you won’t trust women.
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Everything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.
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I miss him whispers my mind he left you screams my heart.
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He is the story I cannot finish he is the poem I’ll always miss.
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He said ‘words are nothing but clumsy’-as he watched poetry fall from my lips.
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He tried everything to silence her except for kindness and remorse -only love softens a voice.
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I said I would heal with you-instead you burned my love.
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